Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdel Rahman Mitib |
| FAMILY NAME | Altakhaineh |
| SIGNATURE | ALTAKHAINEH A R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7605-2497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Formal perspectives on mayyit (‘dead’) as a taboo-based intensifier in Urban Jordanian Arabic
This paper examines the syntactic properties of the taboo-based intensifier mayyit ‘dead’ in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA). We argue that mayyit developed its intensifying function through metaphorical extension rather than grammaticalization. Despite this shift, mayyit retains its adjectival category and shows agreement and other features of lexical items. Two forms are attested: a prepositional form and a non-prepositional, compound-like form. W…
Mobility, Borrowing, and Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Gulf Arabic Influence on Jordanian Returnees’ Arabic
This study investigates how extended residence in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries reshapes the lexical repertoire of Jordanian Arabic speakers after returning to Jordan. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and a picture-naming task with 30 returnees, the research documents the extent, distribution, and social meanings of Gulf Arabic borrowings. Using a variationist framework informed by Labovian principles and contact-linguistic theory…
Vocabulary Acquisition Among Arabic-Speaking EFL Kindergarten Learners: Multisensory vs. Traditional Approach
This study investigates the effectiveness of multisensory learning (MSL) compared to traditional (TRD) teaching methods in enhancing English vocabulary acquisition among English as a foreign language (EFL) kindergarten-aged learners in Amman, Jordan. A total of 49 children were divided equally into two groups: one receiving traditional instruction and the other exposed to multisensory techniques, including visual aids, auditory input, specific ac…
Metaphor comprehension in Arabic-speaking EFL learners: Embodiment types and gender effects
Understanding how EFL learners process figurative language, an important component of communicative competence, is relevant to effective language acquisition and communication. This study examines whether embodied metaphors are easier to comprehend than non-embodied metaphors for Arabic-speaking EFL learners and whether gender moderates comprehension. Eighty advanced students (40 male, 40 female) from the University of Jordan completed a multiple…
False Positive Risk in AI Detection of L2 Academic Writing: A Case Study
AI -text detectors are increasingly used in education and scholarly publishing. While these tools are meant to protect academic integrity, they may also create new inequities for multilingual writers. This exploratory case study investigates why legitimate second language (L2) academic prose can be misclassified as AI -generated. We start from the premise that L2 academic writing functions as a distinct register whose recurrent linguistic feature…
More than just a taste: Exploring food metaphors in Jordanian Arabic
Language and metaphor are intertwined, with metaphor serving as a key tool for conceptualizing experience and expressing social meanings. This study investigates the sociolinguistic use of food-related metaphors in Jordanian Arabic, focusing on how they reflect and construct perceptions of physical appearance, personality, and social traits. It aims to fill a gap in previous research by exploring how such metaphors function as tools for expressin…
The attitudes of Jordanian university students towards learning Turkish as a foreign language
This study investigates attitudes toward learning the Turkish language among students in Jordan. It adopts a mixed-methods design combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative data were collected through a structured questionnaire administered to university students, while qualitative insights were obtained through open-ended responses to gain deeper understanding of learners' perspectives. The data were analyzed using descr…
On the grammaticalization of raːħ: Semantic and social variation
This research aims to examine the grammaticalization process of the lexical verb raːħ ‘went’ in the Urban Jordanian dialect, and explore semantic differences and sociolinguistic factors (gender and age) that influence the use of raːħ variants. We used a forced-choice task to identify the dominant variants across demographics and then examined their semantic association with certainty and possibility. An acceptability judgment task was also employ…
Impoliteness in online airline complaints: A Kuwaiti perspective on flight delays and cancellations
This study examines the impoliteness strategies employed by Kuwaiti passengers who complain about airline delays and cancellations online on TripAdvisor and X. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study analyzes 50 samples to calculate the frequency of various impoliteness strategies. The study adopts Brown and Levinson (1987. Politeness: Some universals in language usage . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and Culpeper (2011…
A critical discourse analysis of ideological positioning in Al Jazeera’s bilingual coverage of the 2023–2024 Gaza-Israel war
This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al Jazeera English (AJE) construct ideologically differentiated narratives of the 2023–2024 Israel–Gaza war for distinct audiences. Adopting Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework, the study combines qualitative textual analysis with quantitative frequency mapping across a matched bilingual corpus of 94 news articles. The analysis focuses on lexical choice…
On ad hoc concept construction and impoliteness mitigation: Evidence from Jordanian Arabic
This study examines how ad hoc concept construction mitigates impoliteness in Jordanian Arabic. Drawing on Relevance Theory and lexical pragmatics, it analyzes how hearers pragmatically adjust conventionalized expressions in face-threatening contexts to derive context-specific meanings. The data come from naturally occurring conversations across informal, workplace, and public settings. From approximately 500 candidate instances, 21 recurrent lex…
The acquisition of telic and atelic motion verbs by Arabic-speaking EFL learners
This study investigates how Arabic-speaking EFL learners acquire telic and atelic motion verbs, focusing on the challenges posed by structural differences between Arabic and English. Arabic, a verb-framed language, encodes motion events differently from English, which is satellite-framed, impacting learners' understanding of telicity. Sixty native speakers of Jordanian Arabic completed an Acceptability Judgment Task (AJT) and a Picture Descriptio…
The silent order: Gestural emblems and symbolic meaning-making in Jordanian street coffee shops
This study investigates non-verbal hand gestures used in street drive-thru coffee shops ( gahwet taka:si ) in Amman, Jordan, focusing on their role as stand-alone emblems for quick transactions. Integrating Symbolic Interactionism with theories of conventionalization and embodiment, the paper examines how meaning is negotiated between customers and employees through joint action. The methodology consisted of qualitative identification of the gest…
Integrating artificial intelligence to enhance inclusive education for students with special needs in Jordan and the UAE: Perspectives of teachers and parents
This study examines the potential of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into inclusive education practices in Jordan and the UAE, focusing on the perceptions of teachers and parents regarding its role in promoting inclusive classrooms. A mixed-methods design was used, combining quantitative data from a 30-item questionnaire administered to 80 participants (40 in each country) with qualitative insights from 36 focus-group participants. Descr…
The role of language transfer in Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ comprehension of scope ambiguity in doubly quantified sentences
This study examines the influence of language transfer on Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ understanding of quantifier scope ambiguity and the impact of their first language on resolving three types of doubly quantified sentences. Fifty English literature and applied English students from the University of Jordan participated, split into two groups: 25 with medium proficiency and 25 with advanced proficiency. A 14-item test with doubly quantified se…
Obstacles to the acquisition of research skills by Jordanian undergraduates from the perspective of academic staff and students
The acquisition of research skills among undergraduate students in Jordan has been limited by various institutional and personal factors. This issue has become increasingly apparent as Jordanian educational institutions work to improve the quality of their outputs, as recommended in King Abdullah II's vision and the National Strategy for Human Resource Development. Undergraduate students in Jordan face obstacles in gaining experience in scientifi…
Code-mixing between Arabic and English among Jordanians on social media
This study aims to investigate the types and motivations of code-mixing between Arabic and English in Jordanian social media conversations. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the research examines fifteen recorded videos from various social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Instances of code-mixing are categorized using Muysken’s classification, which includes insertional, congruent lexicalization, and alter…
Transgender representation: A comparative analysis of cultural sensitivity in English and Arabic news headlines in Jordanian media
Media representation of transgender individuals goes beyond reporting – it shapes public perception and reflects societal values. This study examines how transgender issues are framed in Jordanian media by analyzing English and Arabic news headlines from Roya News and The Jordan Times between 2015 and 2023. Using quantitative analysis and discourse examination, the study identifies distinct editorial patterns. Roya News covers transgender issues …
Examining the use of Andalusian Spanish on X.com platform: A content analysis of posts to assess regional identity and linguistic features
This study examines the use of Andalusian Spanish on X.com platform as a means of expressing regional identity. Through content analysis of 50 words, organized in a table with their phonetic pronunciation and English translation, each group of words was categorized based on its linguistic features. The research identifies key linguistic features such as omission or dropping of the consonant sounds, adding suffixes and deaffrication. The findings …
Gendered linguistic patterns in online reviews on localized E-commerce platforms in Jordan and the UAE: An exploratory study
This study explores how gender shapes linguistic practices in online product reviews for fashion, accessories, and fragrances on leading global e-commerce platforms with localized sites for Jordan and the UAE. Using a qualitative sociolinguistic framework, grounded in discourse analysis and politeness theory, the research analyzes 120 user-generated reviews from these platforms. The findings reveal that typical gendered face-to-face communication…
The Impact of Language Proficiency on Understanding Ellipsis and Substitution in the EFL Context
This study investigates the impact of language proficiency on EFL learners' ability to identify and comprehend complex linguistic features, focusing on ellipsis and substitution. It aims to determine which of these features presents greater challenges and contributes to a higher frequency of errors, shedding light on the specific difficulties learners face in processing and using these structures across different contexts. The study employed a mi…
Analyzing the Pragmatic Functions of the Religious Expression /ʔallaːh yaʕtiːk ʔilʕaːfje/(May God grant you health) in Spoken Jordanian Arabic
This study advances the methodological analysis of religious expression in Arabic by introducing a mixed methods framework for investigating the pragmatic functions of the phrase /ʔallaːh yaʕtiːk ʔilʕaːfje/(“may God grant you good health”) in Jordanian Spoken Arabic. By integrating both parametric and non-parametric statistical analyses, the research identifies and ranks the pragmatic functions of this religious marker across the sample and compa…
Politeness strategies used for requesting tips in Jordanian coffee houses
This study investigates the use of messages written on tip boxes in Jordanian coffee houses, focusing on the contrasts and similarities between English and colloquial Jordanian Arabic messages and their impact on Jordanian society. The analysis is grounded in ethnographically observed data collected from eight purposefully selected coffee houses located near the Seventh Circle, Um Uthaina, Mecca Street, and the Eighth Circle, with photographs of …
Idioms as Gateways to Emotional Expressions of Sadness and Joy in French
This study explores the metaphorical and metonymical expressions of sadness and joy in French idiomatic expressions, collected from various media sources and YouTube channels. Using a qualitative research design, it applies the Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze how these emotions are conceptualized through image schemas, domains, and mental spaces. A type-based approach is used to categorize the source domains underlying these metaph…
Syntactic Markers of Deception: Analyzing Lies in Jordanian Arabic through Linguistic Patterns
An analysis of Arabic tautology in English compounds used in customer-service settings in Jordan: A pragmatic perspective
The Effect of Using an Arabic Assistive Application on Improving the Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Comprehend and Answer Content Questions
On the Acquisition of the Arabic Grammatical Gender by Arabic-Speaking Children with ASD
Lying Detection Through Reality Monitoring: Evidence from Jordanian Arabic
Culture-specific discourse in marketing: A study of socio-cultural traditions in Jordanian shops and streets
This study investigates the various marketing strategies employed in the malls and streets of Amman, Jordan. Specifically, it aims to identify the different methods salespeople use to attract customers’ attention to their products indirectly, and sometimes through non-verbal means. The study illustrates how the theoretical concepts of speech acts, as discussed by Searle and Grice, are utilized in the marketing strategies observed in Jordanian mal…
A Horn of Pepper or a Head of Onion: An Analysis of Semantic Variation of Classifiers in Jordanian Spoken Arabic from a Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach
This study examines the semantic variation in fruit and vegetable classifier usage in Amman, Jordan, employing a cognitive sociolinguistic approach. The semantic variation revolves around using idiomatic classifiers, such as raːs basʕal (“head of onion”), in contrast to neutral classifiers, i.e., ħabbet basʕal (“a piece of onion”) or numerals, such as basʕalteːn (“two onions”). This study focuses on classifiers used with fruits and vegetables, wh…
Pronunciation and Spelling Accuracy in English Words with Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners
Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets. This study examines the relationship between Arabic-speaking EFL learners' spelling accuracy and pronunciation, concentrating on the difficulties caused by consonant clusters in initial and final positions. A mixed-methods approach was employed, involving audio recordings to…
Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a subset of the study cohort to obtain the participants' own explanation of where they dege…
Headedness in Arabic Compounds within the Synthetic Genitive Construction
This study aims to pinpoint the position of head in Arabic compounds within the Synthetic Genitive Construction (SGC). It also examines the headedness of these compounds morphologically, syntactically, and semantically. The analysis confirms that compounding in Arabic is predominantly left-headed. The semantic, syntactic, and morphological heads always coincide in Arabic compounds within the SGC. With regard to Adj + N compounds in Arabic, I argu…
Identifying Arabic compounds other than the Synthetic Genitive Construction
This study examines types of compounds other than the Synthetic Genitive Construction (SGC) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA), discussing the word class of the parts of the compound and identifying the head. The analysis reveals that there are four types of compounds in MSA, and three in JA. The Prep + Prep combination is missing from JA. I also argue that the word class of the parts of the compound of Arabic in general, a…
Headedness in Arabic Compounds within the Synthetic Genitive Construction
This study aims to pinpoint the position of head in Arabic compounds within the Synthetic Genitive Construction (SGC). It also examines the headedness of these compounds morphologically, syntactically, and semantically. The analysis confirms that compounding in Arabic is predominantly left-headed. The semantic, syntactic, and morphological heads always coincide in Arabic compounds within the SGC. With regard to Adj + N compounds in Arabic, I argu…
The Linguistic Features of Acronyms in Arabic
This study investigates the phonological, semantic, and pragmatic features of acronyms in Arabic. Acronyms in Arabic have appeared quite recently as a result of globalization and exposure to or contact with, mainly, English via radio stations and TV channels, which are broadcasting in English and in some countries, for example, Morocco in both English and French. Through in-depth analysis, it has been observed that acronyms in Arabic are subject …
An analysis of Arabic metaphorical and/or metonymical compounds: A cognitive linguistic approach
This study provides an analysis of Arabic metaphorical and/or metonymical compounds, extracted from a 20,000-word corpus, based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory. The analysis focuses on the semantic transparency of these compounds, on the one hand, and their linguistic creativity, on the other. In line with Benczes ( 2006 , 2010 ), we suggest that the comprehension of Arabic metaphorical and/or metonymical compounds is…
The Impact of Facebookers’ Posts on Other Users’ Attitudes According to Their Age and Gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology
This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that negative Facebook posts might evoke in Facebookers. Thus, a mixed-methods approach was adopted employing both a five-point agreement Likert scale questionnaire and semi-structured interviews which were conducted with 40 participa…
Verb + verb compound and serial verb construction in Jordanian Arabic (JA) and English
A cross-linguistic perspective on the Right-Hand Head Rule: The rule and the exceptions
The study investigates the patterning of headedness in compounding, in particular the patterning of regularities and exceptions to the Right-Hand Head Rule (RHHR). An examination of the grammatical descriptions of compounds in English, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish indicates that languages such as German and Dutch are strongly right-headed, other languages such as French and Arabic are strongly left-headed, whereas En…
The Effect of the Gender and Culture of the IELTS Examiner on the Examinees’ Performance on the IELTS Speaking Test in the UAE Context
This study examined the effect of the gender and culture of the IELTS examiner on the performance of Arab examinees on the IELTS speaking test. It relied on Communication Accommodation Theory to account for the linguistic behaviour of the examinees in reaction to the gender and the culture of the IELTS examiner. Through interviewing 15 female and 15 male IELTS examinees in Al Ain, the UAE and conducting focus group interviews with 10 IELTS teache…
The Incidental Acquisition of English Prepositions by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners: Evidence From Al Ain University of Science and Technology
This study examined the incidental acquisition of English prepositions by Arabic-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Employing reading comprehension exercises as a treatment, we adopted the experimental design of a pre- and post-test to determine the effectiveness of the treatment on the participants’ incidental acquisition of English prepositions. For the purpose of the study, we divided the participants into a treatment group…
ɸ-agreement within Construct State in Jordanian Arabic
This paper shows that the head noun of the Construct State may ɸ-agree (in Number and Gender) with the accompanying DP associate in Jordanian Arabic. When it occurs, this agreement is, however, only invoked when the DP associate is referential (e.g., galam ʔil-walad ‘the boy’s pen’> galam uh i ʔil-walad i , but barbiiʃ ʔil-ʁaaz ‘the gas pipe’> *barbiiʃ -uh i ʔil-ʁaaz i ). The paper provides a syntactic account of this observation which clearly de…
On the comprehension of metonymical expressions by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: A cognitive linguistic approach
This study aims to examine the comprehension of L2 metonymies by Arabic-speaking EFL learners and to investigate the extent to which the participants’ L1 conceptual and linguistic knowledge of metonymies can affect the processing of L2 metonymies. A comprehension task was administered to elicit data, and the results showed that the participants encountered various degrees of difficulty comprehending different types of metonymies. Though metonymy …
On the Acquisition of the Arabic Grammatical Gender by Arabic-Speaking Children with ASD
Metaphors and metonymies used in memes to depict Covid-19 in Jordanian social media websites
This study provides an analysis of the monomodal and multimodal metaphors and metonymies depicting COVID-19 in a corpus of 250 memes. The theoretical framework adopted in this study included Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Forceville's (2008) Mono-modal and Multimodal Metaphor Theory, and Musolff's (2006) approach in identifying source domains scenarios. Various source domains that depict different aspects of COVID-…
Love and beloved metaphors in Jordanian Arabic and English songs: A cognitive linguistic study
This study examines love and beloved metaphors from the cross-cultural perspective of Jordanian Arabic (JA) and English. The conceptual models suggested by Lakoff and Johnson ( 1980 , 1999 ) and Kövecses (2014) and force dynamics proposed by Talmy (1988) are adopted as the theoretical frameworks for this study. The data was collected from contemporary songs by Jordanian and English-speaking artists. Unlike previous comparative studies on love and…
Teachers’ and Students’ Perceptions of the Effect of Cultural Background in the IELTS Listening Test
This study examined the effect of culturally-specific items on the performance of Arab candidates on the IELTS Listening Test. Using an online survey and focus-group discussions with 16 IELTS teachers and 32 IELTS candidates at Al Ain University in Abu Dhabi/the United Arab Emirates, the current study showed that the independent variable, i.e., ‘culture’ has a negative impact on the candidates’ performance. The results revealed that the most cult…
Compositionality in N + N compounds in Jordanian Arabic and English
This article aims to examine to what extent English and Jordanian Arabic (JA) have the same classification of N + N compounds based on their degree of compositionality. It also attempts to propose a universally applicable classification of compositionality in N + N compounds. I suggest a modified version of the degree of compositionality based on previous classifications by Fernando (1996), Dirven and Verspoor (1998), and Kavka (2009). The new cl…
A critical assessment of the structural dimensions of gender-based violence
Purpose Despite the fact that the gender-based violence (GBV) term has different interpretations, leading to the assumption that all types of harmful acts against all gender identities and either sex will be addressed under the GBV umbrella, in reality, GBV remains to be synonymous with violence against women (VAW). Thus, this paper aims to assess the accountability and transparency of GBV policies and interventions in addressing the suffering of…
Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a subset of the study cohort to obtain the participants' own explanation of where they dege…
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists
This study analyzes 30 cartoons depicting the D eal of the C entury as envisaged by two Jordanian cartoonists. Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier and Turner [2008, Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought , Cambridge University Press, 53–66]) and Multimodal Metaphor Theory (Forceville, 2008) are adopted as theoretical frameworks. The results reveal that the target domain the D eal of the C entury was conceptualized mainly through layered me…
A Variationist Analysis of /ð/ in Ammani Arabic
The effect of the workplace on women’s language: A view from Jordan
This study explores the effect of the workplace on language use by Jordanian working women in terms of variety, lexis, and pronunciation. To this end, the study adopted a triangulation of research methods utilising qualitative and quantitative analyses, i.e. a questionnaire, ethnographic field notes, and interviews. Ethnographic field notes were taken for Jordanian working women in two different settings over three weeks. The questionnaire was di…
The comprehension of English compound nouns by Arabic-speaking EFL learners
This paper examines the comprehension of English compound nouns by sixty Arabic-speaking EFL learners majoring in English at the University of Jordan, Amman. It explores the problems that these learners may encounter in understanding certain types of compounds, namely, subordinative, attributive and coordinative, based on the notions of endocentricity and exocentricity. Participants whose English proficiency level was advanced took a test to iden…
The use of question tags in Jordanian Arabic by Facebook users
This study aims to investigate the use of question tags among Jordanian female and male Facebook users and identify some commonly used words for question tags in colloquial Arabic. To this end, a focus group was formed, comprising individuals who possessed an advanced command of the Arabic language and an understanding of sociolinguistic concepts. In addition, a corpus of 515 comments on controversial topics was compiled. Data were analyzed by se…
First language and second language English editorialists’ use of interactional metadiscourse
This study explores the use of interactional1 metadiscourse by first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorialists. The study uses Hyland’s (2019) model of metadiscourse to analyse 80 editorials published between 2020 and 2021 in The Guardian and The Jordan Times newspapers (40 from each newspaper). A mixed-method approach – adopting quantitative and qualitative measures – was used to analyse the data. The frequency of interactiona…
The Effect of Using an Arabic Assistive Application on Improving the Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Comprehend and Answer Content Questions
Linguistics (41 works) · Psychology (38 works) · Computer Science (30 works) · Arabic (25 works) · Philosophy (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works)